If I went?

mlbtheshow

mlbtheshow

mlbtheshow

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To the bottom of the ocean, the deepest one, dont know what that is, but the deepest one. How close to the middle of the Earth would I be? And if I was close, assuming I could survive all the water pressure and monsters that are down there etc... would I burn alive? As isnt the Earth a ball of fire/lava in the middle?

Feel free to post your own 'If I went' ponderies.
 
It is the Pacific, and the deepest trench purportedly has a solid bottom, not a fiery one.

The deepest point is around 7 miles, so there'd be around 1.6 miles above Everest if it was dropped in!
 
Think the Marianna trench is the deepest part? Can you hold your breath long enough to get that far down? :D
 
Basic Wiki bro

The trench is not the part of the seafloor closest to the center of the Earth. This is because the Earth is not a perfect sphere: its radius is about 25 kilometres (16 mi) less at the poles than at the equator.[5] As a result, parts of the Arctic Ocean seabed are at least 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) closer to the Earth's center than the Challenger Deep seafloor.

So there's your start point... Now off you go do your own homework.:p
 
Also bear in mind that you asked about the deepest point of the ocean, which is the mariana trench. This is not, however, the closest point to the centre of the earth. This would be somewhere around the poles. The Earth bulges around the equator.
 
mlbtheshow said:
Ok lets go a bit wild here, lets flip the ocean bottoms upside down... would the deepest ocean now become the biggest mountain?
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Easily. By a long shot.

Even if you didn't flip the sea bottoms, if you take all the water away the tallest (not highest) peak wouldn't be Everest.
 
Efour said:
Basic Wiki bro

The trench is not the part of the seafloor closest to the center of the Earth. This is because the Earth is not a perfect sphere: its radius is about 25 kilometres (16 mi) less at the poles than at the equator.[5] As a result, parts of the Arctic Ocean seabed are at least 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) closer to the Earth's center than the Challenger Deep seafloor.

So there's your start point... Now off you go do your own homework.:p
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I get your point about Wiki, but it destroys forums.. I like to learn from people, not Wiki :(
 
Cool, some interesting stuff.

Now im going out on a limb here, how do we know that the centre of the Earth is lava etc? Im assuming someone has drilled in that far? Or is it basically Volcanos, they are our holes to the middle of the Earth, so if I could survive lava, I could swim through a volcano right to the middle of the Earth without land stopping me?
 
As I understand it (and I haven't verified this and I'm on a conference call so mistakes are possible) the centre of the Earth is a molten iron core. It's why we have magnetic poles, why the Earth spins, and why the Earth can sustain life.

Mars is a dead planet because it's core died.
 
Earth is an oblate spheroid and that complicates things. Are you diving to the centre of the earth off a cliff in Magaluf or Nunavut?

If you dived (dove?) to the deepest depths of the ocean on doppelganger Earth which is diametrically opposed to our own earth at the far side of the sun (Gerry Anderson produced a documentary on it, worth a watch), would you freeze balls? I think not.


Gilly said:
Mars is a dead planet because it's core died.
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Did Mars even lift?
 
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